乡愁是首诗（5）

Homesickness is a poem

While still alive, good filial piety,

趁着在世，好好的孝顺，

Wait for the real to go, leave no regret.

等真的去了，不留遗憾。

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We like the third poem best of all .

在所有诗中我们最喜欢第三首。

A man should so live as to be like a poem,

人须求可以入诗，

thing should so look as to be like a picture.

物须求可以入书。

I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem.

我以为，从生物学角度看，人的一生恰如诗歌。

The entire human history is a poem which never can finish;

整个人类历史是一首永不会写完的诗；

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At the right time

时和岁稔

To harmonize relations

调和鼎鼐

Regulating Yin and Yang

调和阴阳

Noise and scen

响和景从